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Elections by October

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    Cote d’Ivoire’s government announced on Monday that it would hold general elections by October. The announcement came three days after the approval by the Ivorian cabinet of the creation of a consultative committee mandated to draft a new constitution and electoral law.

    The government of Brigadier General Robert Guei had been urged by various local and international bodies to announce a date for elections following the overthrow of President Henri Konan Bedie on 24 December 1999. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the 16-member subregional grouping to which Cote d’Ivoire belongs, had called for elections by June.

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